Basil and Barbells – Chef Donna Mintz
Not your every day personal chef service.
Chef Donna’s background as a Natural Foods Personal Chef, Health Counselor and Personal Trainer has helped many people on their road to a healthier life. Since 2003, as owner and founder of Basil & Barbells, Inc. she has been combining these services to help her clients lose weight, control diabetes and gestational diabetes as well as a multitude of other health issues. She is also the owner and creator of the Basil & Barbells Health Alliance, an online community that offers tips, tricks, recipes, how-to videos and discussion forums for a healthy lifestyle.
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Basil & Barbells, Inc. services include:
In-home personal chef services – This service is personalized to meet your dietary requirements.
Hands-on cooking lessons – Whatever it is you want to learn to prepare, Donna will put together a menu and lead you through the cooking lesson in the privacy of your own home.
Health counseling – We all have our own health goals, whether they be to lose weight, control illness or just have a happy and healthy body. Your counseling program is designed to meet your personal goals.
In-home personal training – Intimidated by the gym? Don’t know how to use the equipment? Personal training session with Donna, in the privacy of your own home, will take the intimidation factor out of your work-out. All session are custom designed with your fitness level, goals and safety in mind.
For a full list of services please visit Basil & Barbells, Inc. Services page
Donna has appeared on Business Week Magazine’s Money Talk Sunday morning television show, is mentioned in the book “The Incredible Shrinking Critic” by Jami Bernard, has been featured in Health Magazine, Prevention Magazine, The Daily News, American Fitness Magazine and Moxxie.com.
About Chef Donna
Personal Chef and Personal Trainer Donna Mintz, owner of Basil & Barbells, Inc. helps BUSY people fit healthy meals and exercise into their extremely busy lives by offering in-home cooking classes, personal training sessions and personal chef services.
Donna is a natural foods personal chef, certified personal trainer, certified holistic health counselor, certified fitness nutritionist, is certified with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, as well as the founder of Basil & Barbells, Inc., a personal chef and personal training services corporation based in New York City. For eight years she has been teaching people to prepare nutritious and delicious meals in their homes, designing workout programs geared specifically to their needs and cooking on a weekly basis for her in-home personal chef clients. She has helped many people and their families address and conquer health issues and lose weight. Although, some of her clients just want to eat healthy, have increased energy or lead a healthy lifestyle.
I have always been interested in nutrition, fitness and cooking and the way they work together to either improve or hinder our health. I have a passion for all things healthy!
A doctor or dietitian can tell you what to eat, but I can help you implement the plan. A doctor can tell you to exercise, but I can design a program based on their recommendations. I make it possible for you to work 8am to 6pm and still lead a healthy lifestyle that includes healthy meals and exercise.
Clients always say “I don’t have time to cook a meal” or “I don’t have time to exercise”. Taking a cue from them I have perfected “The Quicky”…recipe and workout. We can all find 10 minutes in our day and I can help you get meals on the table or do a full body workout in that time.
I have had the privilege of learning from some of the leaders in the Alternative Medicine, Nutrition and Culinary Industry.
This includes Deepak Chopra, Paul Pitchford MS, Annemarie Colbin PhD, David Katz MD, Barry Sears PhD, Arthur Agatston MD, Marion Nestle PhD, Laurence Kushi, Chef Christopher Burgos, Chef Peter Berley, Mark Hyman MD, Neal Barnard MD, Deepak Chopra MD, Walter Willett MD, Andrew Weil MD, John Douillard DC PhD, Bernie Siegel, MD, Michael Jacobson, Sally Fallon Morell, Chef Billy DeMarco, Joshua Rosenthal MScEd, Chef Andrea Beaman and David Wolfe
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